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I’m grateful to Ilene for her response to my paper. I feel I couldn’t have received a more creative or interesting take on my article. More than just responding to my paper, Ilene went well beyond my ideas to assert that my show, Dr. Bradley’s Fabulous Functional Narcissism, made a contribution by taking complicated psychoanalytic ideas and conveyed them through the vernacular of musical theater—a more easily accessible vehicle with which to bring our ideas. A new psychoanalytic vernacular sounds expansive, but why not? I’m pleased to be acknowledged for this because the paring down of psychoanalytic language to make it more accessible to my audience was something I worked hard to achieve. As Ilene also points out, it was written to reach a more discerning and educated audience. I imagined my NY and LA attendees would be people who, generally speaking, might have been in some form of therapy, and would actually enjoy hearing me speak to them in language that was almost clinical. I chose slightly elevated language dusted with psychological meaning as a “hook” to grab my audience’s attention, but nothing overly analytical that they might feel “kept out” or alienated by words that were “snooty” or too clinical. I walked a fine line in my attempt to give my audience words and ideas they could identify with—words through which my audience and I would end up sharing an inside joke about our collective narcissism. Most audience members got it, but a few did not. Out of 8 mostly splendid reviews in NY, one critic stated that he “did find that the technical psychological jargon, even when satirically delivered, got to be a bit much as times” (Geddes, 2018) Another critic said: “Dr. Bradley wielded his psychological prowess like a surgeon’s scalpel, with the exquisite timing of a Borscht-Belt comic” (Sabella, 2018). We can’t hit it every time, but when we do it feels exhilarating. I do agree with Ilene that we must find ways to communicate psychoanalytic ideas to the general